Four peregrine falcon chicks have hatched at an apartment block where a pair of the birds of prey have made their home.
Sussex Heights on Brighton seafront is host to a nest box that was installed by Graham Roberts of the Sussex Ornithological Society in 1998.
It towers 334 feet above the city and was put in place to help protect peregrine nests.
It has been home to many pairs of breeding falcons with peregrines rearing their young here every year except 2002 when they bred on the West Pier.
The box provides an essential home for the preservation of the birds which were extinct in Sussex until 1990.
The peregrine falcons can be viewed online via a live webcam link on the Sussex Heights website.
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